The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...

Karl Bates, Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology, convened experts from institutions across the UK and the Netherlands.

Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans, had shorter legs and smaller calf muscles and Achilles tendons. She would ...

New research uses 3D modeling to reconstruct Lucy's running style, revealing surprising insights into the evolution of human ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

In a study published in Current Biology, researchers have revealed that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient hominin species, exhibited a limited capacity for running. This small bipedal ancestor, ...

Recent research suggests Australopithecus afarensis was able to run upright at speeds of around 5 meters per second ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century.Dart was ...

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis 1 — a small hominin that lived more than ...

A lizard with a name that sounds like it could star in Game of Thrones, a soft furred hedgehog with ‘vampire’ fangs, a high-altitude crocodile newt, a freshwater fish already well known among aquarium ...